- The man who shot a rampaging carjacker outside a Washington state Walmart is a pastor and a paramedic who also gave first-aid to the most seriously wounded victim. (Via Zendo Deb)
- The phone giants plan to stop selling your location data to third parties. Well, isn’t that wonderful of them. Why were they selling you out in the first place?
- Another university — a biggie, Princeton — finally takes a stand for free speech.
- A second major Supremes decision this week is better than the first. Your betters still believe still grant you a right to privacy in your cellphone. Well, some privacy you know. Can’t ask for too much.
- (Yet another) cure for the sick U.S. healthcare system.
- After being stuck in captivity for a year, the poor, misnamed Reality Winner has accepted a plea bargain.
- You know you’re getting old when when archaeologists start excavating Woodstock.
- Why people fleeing zombies always find veterinarians instead of M.D.s when they need aid. 🙂
- Pet penguins. 🙂
- Your humanity-is-good story for today: Alaska Airlines flight attendants, fellow passengers, and a teenage girl help a man with whom no one was able to communicate.
I think Justice Thomas was wrong on the cell phone records. The records may be collected and kept by someone else, but that same statement applies to medical records. Yet my personal information is entirely protected from being sold or otherwise divulged by my doctors and other providers under HIPPA. But location data could tell someone about what health care providers I’m seeing and thereby about my medical situations.
Since Congress has already established a right to privacy for health matters and personal information, why not for personal locations as well? Why shouldn’t we have a Personal Information Portability Protection Act? It’s nobody’s business where I’ve been UNTIL they suspect me of committing some crime that has already happened.
Come to think about it, no vet has ever given one of my animals a med that wasn’t already in use for humans! They’re just much cheaper – probably because there’s no health insurance company paying for them.
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but that same statement applies to medical records. Yet my personal information is entirely protected from being sold or otherwise divulged by my doctors and other providers under HIPPA…..
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My take? Your info is now open to all kinds of prying eyes it wasnt available to before.
Makes me think of burglarizing Ellsbergs office by Nixon,now just a keystroke away for example
I wonder if the Archaeologists dug up any deadheads?
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